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Quote Originally Posted by Julius Rain View Post
I have a feeling floyd will stay retired. I think he was hoping for oscar to win and only a oscar rematch would get him back. Honestly I think floyd has a pussy attitude, why would he give pac the benefit of being in his resume and risking losing and adding to pacs already greater legacy. I think thats the kind of mind set floyd has. Floyds resume looks like shit next to pac right now. The best fighter on floyds resume just got demolish round after round and had to quit. the second best fighter in floyds resume may be next and pac is likely to ko hatton even sooner then floyd could. Plus the guy who could of gave floyd trouble in the lightsweight casamayor just got knock out by pacs great rival jmm. Casamayor the same guy that has two wins over the third good fighter in floyds resume, chico corrales. We all know floyd has skills but he hasn't displayed it against the best out there, thats a fact. I just mentioned his best three great wins. I think floyd has no choice but to stay retired. He wants no piece of margarito or cotto and he wont risk losing to pac.
Floyd never faced Casamayor, and Casamayor wasn't being dominated at all by JMM, he was beaten later on, but this wasn't the same Casamayor that fought Corrales and Castillo way back in the day, I give them all a significant edge if they were to have foughten JMM prime for prime, in fact I see Castillo and Corrales probably KO'ing JMM. Mayweather risked more by fighting in the spot light against guys like Oscar and Hatton then fighting guys like MArgarito and Cotto, I think Cotto presents a challenge, but Floyd wasn't ducking Margarito, Margarito brought nothing of value to the table for Floyd, he was making more money fighting guys that people actually knew.

Its retarded to say Pacquiao is faster than Judah, if anything he's slower. I agree he's a different type of fighter, but he isn't a different type of athlete. Both Mayweather and Judah are a little faster than Pacquiao. Manny is very fast, but it was him being a southpaw that made him so effective against Oscar.
I adamentally disagree with you on the above statement. Hatton is a not a riskier fight than Cotto or Margarito. Really? A fight with Hatton made more sense from a business standpoint. That is all. It was not riskier.

PBF didn't fight Margarito because the risk outweighed the reward. Why fight Margarito when you can fight Hatton? A smaller guy who happens to be the biggest ticket seller in all of boxing or a big welterweight who no one outside of hardcore fans know? There is a reason Floyd chose not to fight any of the top welterweights yet fight Ricky Hatton and ODLH? Risk/reward. Don't forget at the time the welterweight division was one of the deepest divisions in boxing: Cotto, Margarito, Williams, PBF, Mosley, Clottey etc etc.

Personally, to really see how great PBF is, which seemed to be the point of your original post, I'd like to see him fight Margarito or Paul Williams. The punisher is someone who matches up well with Floyd. I'll go out on a limb here and say Paul may even beat Floyd. With Margarito, Floyd may execute what Cotto tried and failed to execute against Margarito. Thus, I would probably favor Floyd, but I wouldn't be surprised if Margarito won by a late round KO. I also don't think the fight would be great. Floyd would run all night and Margarito may never catch him.

Please don't infer that I'm doubting PBF's greatness because I am most definitely not. And would never do that. Dude is a great. But, he never fought a true elite welterweight - unless ODLH qualifies.